A 40 Percent Cap on Texas Top Ten Percent Automatic Admissions Will Actually Reduce Top Ten Percent Students to about 25 Percent of the UTAustin
Entering Freshman Class in 2009.

If a 40 percent cap is placed on Top Ten Percent Plan student admissions, thousands of academic performance-based admission slots at the
University
of
Texas
atAustin
will be eliminated in the upcoming year. Thousands more will be lost as the cap is applied at other state universities in the future.

* Based on data provided that include students who are White, African American, Asian or Hispanic, which represent 98 percent of Top Ten Percent Plan students at UT Austin.

Among the total ofTexas
’ Top Ten Percent Plan students admitted to the
University
of
Texas
atAustin
from 2000 to 2007, only about 60 percent of those students actually enrolled at the university in each of those years. Applying a cap to admission of students will reduce the pool of Top Ten Percent Plan student applicants and will result in deeper reductions in Top Ten Percent Plan students than the cap implies.

* Based on data provided that include students who are White, African American, Asian or Hispanic, which represent 98 percent of Top Ten Percent Plan students at UT Austin.

If the number of Top Ten Percent Plan students who are admitted is capped at 40 percent of applicants, the percentage of enrollees who are Top Ten Percent Plan students will be cut to 25 percent of the
University
of
Texas
at
Austin
’s incoming freshmen in subsequent years.

* Based on data provided that include students who are White, African American, Asian or Hispanic, which represent 98 percent of Top Ten Percent Plan students at UT Austin.

* Based on data provided that include students who are White, African American, Asian or Hispanic, which represent 98 percent of Top Ten Percent Plan students at UT Austin.